Deja Dead

Deja Dead

Kathy Reichs

4 out of 5

Kathy Reichs sure can write a descriptive scene, right down to the maggots on the body. Don't know if that would appeal to everyone, but it sure did draw a vivid picture.

First of all, if you are looking for an identical match to the Bones TV show, well, this book isn't quite it. "Temperance Brennan of TV land" has more of a past then "book Brennan" and though they both share the same general education and experience, they are very different characters. Keeping that in mind, this book is still quite good as long and you remember to keep the two entities separate.

Temperance, a forensic anthropologist, is call out to examine a mutilated and decomposing body in Quebec where she is on loan from her regular job in the states. After a thorough examination, she begins to see comparisons to previous cases, comparisons that she is having a hard time convincing others of. However, as more and more bodies turn up and more and more similarities present themselves, it is becoming harder and harder for the French bureaucrats to deny what Temperance is seeing. Add in information that Tempe's best friend has revealed and all hell breaks lose when the two explode into a terrifying finale with the final body count escalating.

My only real concern with this book is the number of characters introduced. Which ones do I need to remember for the next book, who is recurring and who is just there for this one time event. I enjoyed this book and the series, I am sure, will settle down with each character having a more distinctive voice that will be easier for me, the reader, to keep straight.

Ms Reich definitely draws you in quickly and hopefully the remaining books of this series will keep me just as enthralled.

Library Loot

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The Library's computer system was down, so they were only able to find two of my books

Ghouls Gone Wild (Ghost Hunter Mystery Series #4)

Victoria Laurie

When M.J. and her friends travel to a small town near Edinburgh, Scotland, to film the first installment of their new cable TV show Ghoul Getters, they find plenty of spooky action in a series of supposedly haunted caverns. But when they discover the body of a maintenance worker, the cause of death is reminiscent of an old legend involving a witch's wrath...


An Irish Country Doctor (Irish Country Series #1)

Patrick Taylor

A straitlaced novice doctor gets initiated into the unorthodox world of a crafty rural sawbones in Taylor's American debut. Barry Laverty is fresh out of school and uncertain about what type of medicine he should practice when he answers an ad for a physician's assistant in Ballybucklebo, a small Northern Ireland town populated, it seems, entirely by eccentrics. Laverty is initially taken aback by his new boss, Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, whom he meets as O'Reilly is literally throwing a patient out of his office. Laverty spends most of the novel swaying between understanding O'Reilly's methods and second-guessing the boxer turned doctor who dishes out plenty of placebos and isn't above telling a white lie or a crude joke to worried patients. Though Laverty often comes across as painfully uptight, he also has an endearing-for-its-awkwardness streak that only surfaces around Patricia Spence, though she'd rather focus on her civil engineering studies than make time for a boyfriend. Serving as a foil to all the innocent fun is the lecherous, greedy Councillor Bishop, who, thanks to a scheming O'Reilly and a reluctant Laverty, gets his comeuppance. Despite the occasional whimsy overload, Taylor's novel makes for escapist, delightful fun

Waiting on Wednesday

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The Other Family

Joanna Trollope

Richie Rossiter had two families, the family he left behind over two decades ago and his second family with three beautiful daughters and the woman he would not marry. They revolved around Richie like planets orbiting a hot sun, never intersecting. He was the star of their firmament; life spun around him until one day it stopped. Now because of a strange bequest in his will the two orbits must cross.

So Far This Year

Total Pages Read: 5458
Fiction: 8
Non-Fiction: 3
Mystery (All Genres): 16
New Authors: 16
Audio: 9
Young Adult: 1

Total Books Read: 28



MAY BOOKS

The Burying Place - Brian Freeman 5/5
Wish You Were Here - Rita Mae Brown 4/5
Fatal Fixer-Upper - Jennie Bentley 3/5
Princess Academy - Shannon Hale 5/5
Murder is Binding - Lorna Barrett 4/5
Book of Fires - Jane Borodale 4/5
Maid For Murder - Barbara Colley 4/5
South of Broad - Pat Conroy 5/5


SO FAR ON MY CHALLENGES:

Cozy Challenge: 7/10
First in a Series: 8/12
ARC Challenge: 4/12
Support Your Local Library: 11/25
Chunkster Challenge: 2/6
Reading From My Shelves Challenge: 11/50